by HBOT News | Apr 1, 1994 | Chronic Wounds
Abstract: To evaluate the effect of hyperbaric oxygen therapy on chronic wound healing, 16 otherwise healthy patients who had nondiabetic, chronic leg ulcers with no large vessel disease were included in a double-blind study. Patients were grouped according to age and...
by HBOT News | Dec 1, 1993 | Necrotizing Fasciitis
Abstract: The incidence of osteomyelitis of the jaws has decreased dramatically, except for a few subsets of individuals. This has been due, in no small part, to the availability of bacteriocidal antimicrobial therapy. The pathogenesis of osteomyelitis of the jaws is...
by HBOT News | Jan 1, 1991 | Chronic Wounds
Abstract: Hyperbaric oxygen has been established as an acceptable treatment for the chronic healing wound. Nicotinamide has been shown to be angiogenic and accelerate the physiologic process following wounding. Therefore both nicotinamide and hyperbaric oxygen were...
by HBOT News | Jan 1, 1989 | Burns
Abstract: Earlier studies from our laboratory have shown that hyperbaric oxygen (HBO) treatment reduces edema, enhances aerobic metabolism and improves the recovery of the phosphorylase activity in postischemic rat skeletal muscle. However, as it has become...
by HBOT News | Jan 1, 1979 | Burns
Abstract: Gas gangrene infection in burnt patients is a rare but often fatal complication. It may however, be successfully treated by the use of hyperbaric oxygen and later judicious amputation of dead tissues. Five cases of bacteriologically proven gas gangrene,...
